Happy New Year!

I wish you all a good and healthy 2014, and may all your wishes come true.

It's been a while since I posted something here on my blog, but I had a very busy time during the winter hollidays. That's what you get when you are a former cook, so I was the one who cooked the Christmas dinner. In fact I did it two days one a rowe. I will not bother you with the details but it took me some days for organising it.

Second thing is I was working on my hobby room. Now it's almost finished, and just a few things have to be done, before I take some pictures and show it to you all. If all goes well I will have the last piece of furniture that I'm missing tomorrow. More about this later on this month.

I also spended one day at the hospital, because I needed some small surgery on my left ear. That was two days before the new year. Bad planning I know, but it had to be done. The risk for ear infections was to big. Now that is solved.

But I think I was a good boy in 2013, because Santa didn't forget me. He brought me some nice things and made my mountain of plastic grow again.

The first thing is a box from good old Airfix. They are reissuing the old sets from when I was young. These Australian Infantry from WW2. I used to have these, but I've lost them. Now I have them back. They are in a harder plastic as the first ones, but they still look fantastic, and it will be a joy to paint them.

Next is a small box of the Art of Tactic sets from Zvezda. Really nice figures to make a small vignette. And always good when I want to do something in between.

Then there was a box of Italeri with the French Foreign Legion in it. Actually these figures are original from Esci, but Italeri brought them back on the market.

The next things I purchased myself but had to land under the Christmas tree. It was an agreement I had to make with my wife, or she didn't give me the permission to purchase them at e-bay.

It was an old lot of figures and buildings from Atlantic I was after and the price was very low when I jumped in bidding. I won the bid of course, otherwise I wouldn't be writing this.

The package contains figures of the following sets: Buffalo Bill, Davy Crockett, Kit Carson and Gold Rush. From these sets there was one sprue each. But the best things I show you with some pictures.

Abilene City:

Sioux Camp. I still miss one figure of this set. The other figures I purchased at CRISIS last year.

Outlaws and Sheriffs. A very rare set. And it was the main reason, together with the town houses, I started bidding. And they are in excellent shape. These figures were several times in the package. I didn't count them but there are a lot of them. One figure I don't show here. If you want to see the whole set, have a look here.

Some bigger pictures of the figures. Ladies first.

Calamity Jane.

Calamity Jane in sunday dress.

The Sheriff.

Wild Bill.

And some outlaws.

Ouch! That hurts!

Ouch again! This even hurts more!

To complete the whole thing I also received some brushes (sorry Fran!) and paints. So you see that Santa (and my wife!) were very good for me.

Next post will be some panted figures again (or one! :-D)

Have a good one and thanks for looking!

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LOTR Wildman of Druadan and Thanks to some bloggers!

Sometimes I want to paint something different as my 1/72 scale figures. This time it's one figure of Games Workshop Lord Of The Rings sets. Picked this up in a hobby shop that waas stopping. Could it buy with a 50% reduction and I couldn't resist.

I might be the only one, but how bigger the scale how harder to paint for me. You see more details on these 28mm figures, so you can't ignore them. I did my very best on him and used the boxart as example to paint him. The base isn't finished yet because I want to wait untill the others are painted.

Well I hope you like the result!

I also want to say thanks to some fellow bloggers who sended me the prizes I won in their "Give Aways".

First one is Pascal from Sam's Minis World. He sended me a "Secret figure" from this "Give Away". And you know what, I will keep it secret for a while. Only thing I can tell, it talks a lot! :-D

Second one is Stefan from Monty's Caravan. I was lucky to win in this "Give Away", this fantastic model of a Horsa. Strange thing about this is that I won it after reading "A bridge to far" from Cornelius Ryan. I must read more books related with Give Aways.

Speaking about books. Not so long ago Dave from One man and his brushes did a "Give Away" with some books in it. You might have guessed it already but also in this "Give Away" I had one of the lucky numbers. My prize was this book with a lot of uniform plates in it. Very usefull for me to paint my Napoleonic figures!

Thank you Pascal, Stefan and Dave for these nice things!

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CRISIS 2013 Purchases

Well as promised here is my little list of purchases I've made at CRISIS this year. I always start with a plan when I go to a convention. I make a small list of the things I'm really after. But as always that are dreams. And as always you leave the place with more things that were on the list.

Let's start with the things that were on that list:

First I went to the stand of Ulrike and Jörg Schilling from Schilling Figuren. They had some new things, and I wanted them in myy collection.

First there was this nice "Ox Wagon".

Then they have a nice range of Indians.

Bear attack!

Buffalo hunt set 1!

Buffalo hunt set 2!

All these figures are sculpted by Toma. Toma's Minis World is his blog and I can recommend a visit to his blog. He has made some awesome diorama's!

Next thing on my list was this (not teasing you Fran!):

Brushes 10/0 and hopefully a good goldpaint this time!
The brushes are for painting those 6 mm figures from Ian!

And then the walk around starts, and the next things were yelling to me: "Buy me!" So here is the result:

Hasegawa Mercedes Benz G4.

Bought it for 5 euro at the bring and sell stands.

Zvezda Siege Machines Set 1! Again 5 euro!

Zvezda Siege Machines Set 2! Same price!

I just love this set! Great figures!

And then I bought some little plastic bags with figures from a second hand shop:

This all for 3,5 euro! Now look what was in it!
I give a little more attention to the bag with the brown figures!

All little pieces from Atlantic, nice to make some scenery!

25 Esci Muslim Warriors!

Some Modern Paratroopers from Atlantic! I have these already!
But they werent the main reason I bought this bag.

1. From the Gold rush set from Atlantic
2. From the Kit Carson set from Atlantic
3. From the Buffalo Bill set from Atlantic

This was the main reason I bought the bag!
The three top rows and the last row of figures
are from the Sioux Camp set of Atlantic.
Never reissued and very rare!

Sitting Bull and a squaw cleaning a buffalo skin!

Top row: A squaw making dinner and a warrior cutting some wood.
Bottom row: A squaw  from the Apache Camp from Atlantic.

Warriors returning from hunt.
Warrior with horse.

With these last figures from Atlantic I was very pleased. Pity they missed some poses as you can see here.

That was it folks!

I also want to welcome a new follower:

- Jur from Rear Guard Action

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Hat 8230 1806 Prussian Artillery Part 2 and ......

Today I present you the second part on this set. Here i have based them for a duel on Benno's Figures Forum. Titel of the work was "Don't burn the grass". It was a mistery duel where I challenged other members to come with one piece of artillery and four crew members. The result of this duel can be seen here.

I used a 4 mm MDF base from 6 by 6 cm. 

Enjoy the pictures!

I hope you like it!

And now the "and ...." in the title! Today I'm celebrating my 49th birthday. It's the firts time in years that I'm at home on this occasion. Normally I'm always on vacation but this years we had other plans. Working on the house and moving out the oldest son are two of them.

My family didn't forget me and was so kind to give me some goodies as a present:

And also some scenery material! Thank you family!

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